ArchDaily Names the Best Projects of 2022. A look at the Building of the Year 2022 finalists and winners in the "Houses" category

This year, for the 13th time, ArchDaily, the leading architecture publication, is presenting its annual Building of the Year award. From more than 4,000 projects, 75 finalists (5 in each category) were selected by online readers, followed by the winners.

So who is most deserving in the private home category?

TECLA, a 3D-printed clay house in Italy by Mario Cucinella Architects.

The project stands out for its unusual semicircular, curved shape and skylights, its use of exclusively local materials, and its near-zero carbon and waste emissions.

The house, measuring 60 square meters, is loosely divided into two halves, a sleeping area and a living area with a kitchen, and the furniture is also partly 3D-printed. TECLA meets the requirements of sustainable architecture and can be used in situations of acute migration or natural disaster.

A house in Japan by Shota Nakanishi Architects

is built in the style of traditional Hokuriku architecture, imbued with the Japanese philosophy of contemplation, unity with nature, deliberate simplicity, and purity of line.

The house is conceived as a place for socializing, like a roofed garden, with a large roof that lets in plenty of sunlight and allows you to live close to nature even in bad weather.

PowerHYDE-billionBricks Modular Homes by billionBricks + Architecture BRIO

An important project that aims to solve the problem of housing for homeless people across Southeast Asia.

These are modular homes that generate their own energy, collect rainwater, and treat wastewater. They require no utility connections and can be occupied the day construction is finished.

This project also won the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction.

The goal of the billionBricks community is to lift families out of poverty within a single generation and help them reach a below-average income.

The first prototype home was built in the Indian village of Mathjalgaon. Two more billionBricks houses have been built and are in use in the Philippines. Future plans include building a community of 500 homes near Manila.

Tower House / Albor Arquitectos

The house we all seem to want to escape to right now.

As the architects see it, the project is rooted in an unstable socio-economic reality and an uncertain future.

Casa Torre (Tower House) is a watchtower in which to defend yourself and weather the difficulties ahead.

And the winner of the House category is Ca'n Terra House / ENSAMBLE STUDIO.

These days it is not enough to simply build a beautiful house with interesting finishes. A house must become a vehicle and an embodiment of its own idea and philosophy.

Ca'n Terra is a project within arm's reach, fragile and bold at the same time, balancing art and nature and weaving its own pattern of time and space.

Rather than imposing itself on the environment, this project is a way into it. It is a new chapter for a rediscovered piece of architecture that was originally used as a quarry, then as an ammunition depot, and later abandoned entirely.

Solar panels, a septic tank, and a water cistern allow the house to be used off-grid.

ArchDaily is the world's leading architecture magazine. For the past 13 years, its Building of the Year Awards have honored the best projects across 15 categories. Readers choose their own favorites from the thousands of homes the magazine publishes throughout the year.